Columbia Pictures has released a brand new trailer for George Clooney’s “The Monuments Men,” based on the book by Robert M. Edsel with Bret Witter.

George Clooney directs and stars in the film alongside Matt Damon, Bill Murray, Cate Blanchett, Jean Dujardin, and Bob Balaban.

Based on the true story of the greatest treasure hunt in history, “The Monuments Men” is an action-thriller focusing on an unlikely World War II platoon, tasked by FDR with going into Germany to rescue artistic masterpieces from Nazi thieves and returning them to their rightful owners. It would be an impossible mission: with the art trapped behind enemy lines, and with the German army under orders to destroy everything as the Reich fell, how could these guys – seven museum directors, curators, and art historians, all more familiar with Michelangelo than the M-1 – possibly hope to succeed? But as the Monuments Men, as they were called, found themselves in a race against time to avoid the destruction of 1000 years of culture, they would risk their lives to protect and defend mankind’s greatest achievements.

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